The right side of the phone houses three buttons: the volume rocker, power and the dedicated shutter button.
The next row up in the panel contains three buttons that take you to the advanced menus for WiFi, AudioWizard and system settings.
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Apart from that, three physical buttons on its top handle power, switching feeds and favoriting photos.
The Xperia T places the three Android buttons at the bottom of the 4.55 inch capacitive screen.
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Three capacitive buttons are tightly grouped along the base of the phone.
From the front, the A8 looks like a thicker iPhone 4 with a very nice 3.2-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen and three additional buttons.
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The launch screen features three main buttons -- Friends Timeline, Replies, and Direct Messages -- set in front of a cartoon-style city skyline.
The button layout is also different, as it uses the standard three capacitive buttons for navigation instead of the special tablet-specific menus found in Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich.
The semi-touch screen is also an interesting variation on the usual touchscreen style, with tactile buzzing feedback when one of the three touch buttons on the external screen are pressed.
The front sports a glass surface with three capacitive buttons and the back showcases the company's Crystal Reflection process -- an attractive patterned glass-like finish that's a bit of a fingerprint magnet.
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The player also doesn't make the most of potential screen real estate, due to the three large buttons and Philips logo taking up roughly a quarter of the its face -- an odd choice, given the GoGear's touchscreen.
The button layout follows the Windows Phone template -- there's the trio of capacitive buttons below the screen, with three physical plastic buttons along the right edge.
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There were two--and arguably three--buttons that engaged the supply-side revolution, which, in turn, set up the U.S.' long economic boom from 1983--2007.
But if ten million monkeys sitting at typewriters can reproduce the works of Shakespeare, it stands to reason that three million bored iPhone owners would push enough buttons to find a backdoor this simple.
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As we already mentioned, the Nexus lacks hardware buttons, which have been replaced with three softkeys at the bottom of the screen -- back, home and recent apps.
The number of capacitive buttons on the front has been reduced to three, with search now absent.
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The textured rubber buttons up front have been reduced from four to three, in keeping with the updated user experience of Ice Cream Sandwich.
We've already got ergonomists telling us that buttons and screens are getting so tiny that only three-year-olds will be able to use them, but so far wearable cellphones haven't quite taken off (even the mighty DoCoMo's mighty Wristomo proved a failure after all the initial buzz died down and Samsung killed off their watchphone altogether).
Dishman incorporated two tests that measure the strength of a patient's speech with a recording chip, and three others--a peg board, two piano keys and videogame-type buttons--that measure reaction time and speed of movement.
The pad can be a bit finicky, too -- while it does a fantastic job of recognizing standard Windows multitouch gestures, its own three-finger swipe, used to view the next or previous page of configured buttons, fails to register unless your fingers are lined up perfectly.
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